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The complete essays of Mark Twain now collected for the first time (1963)

Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Subject: NOVELAS ESTADOUNIDENSES; Essays
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
Language: English
Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive
Book contributor: Internet Archive
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Two Mark Twain Editorials -- Disgraceful persecution of a boy -- License of the press -- The Sandwich Islands -- A memorable midnight experience -- English as she is taught -- Aix, the paradise of the rheumatics -- At the shrine of St. Wagner -- Mental telegraphy -- The German Chicago -- Marienbad, a health factory -- Switzerland, the cradle of liberty -- In defense of Harriet Shelley -- How to tell a story -- Mental telegraphy again -- What Paul Bourget thinks of us -- A little note to M. Paul Bourget -- Queen Victoria's jubilee --- About play-acting -- Stirring times in Austria -- Concerning the Jews -- Diplomatic pay and clothes -- My debut as a literary person -- To the person sitting in darkness -- To my missionary critics -- Thomas Brackett Reed -- Saint Joan of Arc -- The first writing-machines -- A helpless situation -- A humane word from Satan -- A monument to Adam -- What is man?-- William Dean Howells -- Is Shakespeare dead? -- Marjorie Fleming, the wonder child -- The new planet -- The old-fashioned printer -- Seventieth birthday -- Taxes and Morals -- The turning-point of my life -- The death of Jean -- How to make history dates stick -- A scrap of curious history -- As concerns interpreting the deity -- The bee -- Concerning tobacco -- The memorable assassination -- A simplified alphabet -- Taming the bicycle -- Adam's soliloquy -- Advice to youth -- As regards Patriotism -- Bible teaching and religious practice -- The Cholera epidemic in Hamburg -- Consistency -- Corn-prone opinions -- The dervish and the offensive stranger -- Dr. Loeb's incredible discovery -- Down the Rhone -- Dueling -- Eve speaks -- The finished book -- Foreign critics -- Instructing the soldier -- Letters to Satan -- The lost Napolean -- On speech-making reform -- Samuel Erasmus Moffett -- Skeleton plan of a proposed casting vote party -- Sold to Satan -- Some national stupidities -- The temperance crusade and woman's rights -- That day in Eden -- The United States of Lyncherdom -- The war prayer -- A word of encouragement for our blushing exiles -- Letter from the recording angel

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